It appears my built in webcam may have the index touchd is assuming to be the kinect, but I have no idea where to get the indexes or if there is a config file to fix it. any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Andros1975

November 24th, 2010, 06:46 PM

hi man, did you get this to work? i have the same issue

airydragon

November 27th, 2010, 08:41 AM

take a look at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3112733&group_id=232685&atid=1087605

stevenmansour

November 30th, 2010, 05:35 PM

Same problem here. Kinect works fine with glview application, but I can't figure out how to get past "No IIDC camera with requested index found."

I've already tried unplugging all other USB devices as mentioned in other comment threads.

Anyone else have any luck?

stevenmansour

December 2nd, 2010, 08:12 PM

I've also tried compiling from source using the instructions found here (http://hackaday.com/2010/11/13/kinect-and-tisch-combined-for-multitouch/), but the syntax is a bit off - I can get glview to work with the compiled version of libkinect, but can't seem to get the right flags / settings / config to compile libtisch.

Any help appreciated!

cyberey66

December 4th, 2010, 04:14 PM

So what can we do with the kinect over a webcam? I'm actually curious, it might be worth buying one if I can write software for it.

I hacked together some software, using a webcam as input, that allows me to move around my desktop cube by 'grabbing' it with my hand. It's useless in the practical sense, but thatís not the point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOEP8ZKQ9GM

floem

December 6th, 2010, 08:07 AM

I've also tried compiling from source using the instructions found here (http://hackaday.com/2010/11/13/kinect-and-tisch-combined-for-multitouch/), but the syntax is a bit off - I can get glview to work with the compiled version of libkinect, but can't seem to get the right flags / settings / config to compile libtisch.
Hi, I've just been pointed to this thread and I'll try to clear some things from those instructions up.

- The Ubuntu packages from the PPA don't support Kinect at the moment, as there's no PPA for libfreenect yet - so you have to compile libtisch from source.
- The libfreenect repository is now at https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect
- You don't need to edit any CMakeLists anymore, just run "cmake . && make".
- The includes and libs are now directly in libfreenect/include and libfreenect/lib.
- Therefore, the commandline to compile libtisch looks something like this now:
CFLAGS=-I/foobar/libfreenect/include LDFLAGS="-L/foobar/libfreenect/lib -lfreenect" make install
(Obviously, you have to adapt /foobar to match your own directory structure.)

After that, the rest of the instructions (particularly those relating to the $HOME/.tisch.touchd config file, still apply.

Hope this helps!
Florian

AlwaysLearning

December 30th, 2010, 02:05 AM

A quick walkthrough for those still having problems...

Note that since you're building from source code you'll need the dev versions of freeglut and libusb:

sudo apt-get install cmake gitg freeglut3-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev

Now, in the directory you want to clone the libfreenect source code to, eg: ~/Projects

If successful you should see a window appear with the live 3D depth map on the left and live video on the right. Use the w/s/x keys to tilt the camera up and down and the keys 0-6 to change the LED colour/blink.

Once you've gotten to this point you should be able to install the drivers.

Good luck.

Nathanv.1

January 5th, 2011, 03:54 AM

Thank you last person but I cant seem to get the code
make . to work.

I get this
nathan@nathan-laptop:~/libfreenect$ cmake .
-- Operating system is Linux
-- Got System Processor i686
-- libfreenect will be installed to /usr/local
-- Headers will be installed to /usr/local/include/libfreenect
-- Libraries will be installed to /usr/local/lib
-- Found libusb-1.0:
-- - Includes: /usr/include
-- - Libraries: /usr/lib/libusb-1.0.so
CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
GLUT_Xi_LIBRARY (ADVANCED)
linked by target "cppview" in directory /home/nathan/libfreenect/examples
linked by target "glpclview" in directory /home/nathan/libfreenect/examples
linked by target "glview" in directory /home/nathan/libfreenect/examples
GLUT_Xmu_LIBRARY (ADVANCED)
linked by target "cppview" in directory /home/nathan/libfreenect/examples
linked by target "glpclview" in directory /home/nathan/libfreenect/examples
linked by target "glview" in directory /home/nathan/libfreenect/examples

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

any help will be appreciated.

Also, I know this may sound pretty newbish of me but can someone just all the coding needed in the order needed to make this work?

floem

January 5th, 2011, 11:00 AM

Hello nathanv,

you can try the following before running cmake:

sudo apt-get install libxmu-dev libxi-dev

Floe

Nathanv.1

January 5th, 2011, 12:13 PM

Thank you floe, but I still couldnt get it to work and because I had been trying so much stuff that there were copies of stuff all over the hard drive I just reinstalled Ubuntu. I may have doomed myself but it would be nice if someone could point me towards or tell me step by step newbie directions on how to get this to work.

Thank You

kat_ams

July 23rd, 2011, 08:36 PM

There is a ppa available for libfreenect

http://openkinect.org/wiki/Getting_Started#Ubuntu

It works pretty much out of the box with Ubuntu Lucid. It does not work with Natty.

I was then able to get simple mouse movements by compiling

https://github.com/Ooblik/Kinect-Mouse/

touchd I still have not been able to get working. Will try to recompile libTISCH by hand see if it can find libfreenect now.

Also according to the wiki for touchd you need to change the camera type from 2 (firewire IIDC) to 5 (kinect)